Qualys debuts industry’s first Risk Operations Center in the Cloud

Qualys debuts industry’s first Risk Operations Center in the Cloud

Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management redefines cyber-risk operations by unifying diverse security solutions for prioritisation and actionable remediation.

Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys

Qualys, a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, has announced the launch of the industry’s first Risk Operations Center (ROC) with Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM).

The solution enables CISOs and business leaders to manage cybersecurity risks in real time, transforming fragmented, siloed data into actionable insights that align cyber-risk operations with business priorities.

The application consolidates both Qualys and non-Qualys security risk data, including from technology alliances like Forescout, Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI, Microsoft, Oracle, and Wiz across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

Organisations are facing an ever-growing volume of risk findings spread across multiple, disconnected top 10 dashboards. This fragmented view results in conflicting analyses, duplicate work, missed threats, and strategies that fail to fully protect the organisation. As a result, companies struggle to get a clear understanding of their true, overall risk, hindering their ability to make informed remediation decisions.

To overcome these challenges, businesses need an integrated approach that combines heterogeneous risk factors from various asset management tools and disparate cybersecurity solutions into a single platform with remediation and mitigation capabilities to reduce risk quickly. That is why Qualys is launching the world’s first ROC with Enterprise TruRisk Management designed to unify asset inventory and risk factors, apply threat intelligence, business context, risk prioritisation, and orchestrate remediation, compliance and reporting through a single interface.

“With IT environments growing more complex and potential risk exposures more numerous, organisations need a holistic and proactive cybersecurity management platform that brings all cyber-risk exposures to one place, unifies scoring and simplifies prioritisation and reporting,” said Michelle Abraham, Research Director at IDC. “Qualys’ approach with the ROC delivers this ideal in a cohesive way. With the ability to analyse all risk factors at a glance – such as exploitability, unique organisational context, threat intelligence and financial impact – Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management empowers CISOs and business leaders to create actionable, enterprise-wide strategies to reduce risk to levels that align with the business’s objectives.”

“Organisations need an accurate diagnosis of their risk, including both IT and security data, in a unified view,” said Scott Woodgate, General Manager, Microsoft Security. “Qualys Enterprise TruRisk now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vulnerability and device data to make this possible.”

“On its 25th anniversary, Qualys continues its never-ending innovation journey by again disrupting the cybersecurity market with the introduction of the ROC,” said Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO of Qualys. “The ROC delivered by Qualys ETM transforms proactive cybersecurity, empowering organisations to operationalise their risk management process in a single platform, and revolutionising the way customers measure, communicate and eliminate risk, irrespective of which cyber tools they employ.”

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